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Marvel has given comic book fans a present this Christmas with a new red-band trailer for the upcoming Deadpool movie.

Ryan Reynolds plays Wade Wilson, a former special forces operative suffering from terminal cancer who undergoes an experimental treatment that saves his life and gives him accelerated healing. But the experiment also grossly disfigures him and drives his somewhat insane. Changing his name to Deadpool, he uses these new abilities to hunt down the man responsible for turning him into the monster he now is.

The new trailer gives a better idea of the tone of the film, with more of the Merc with a Mouth's wisecracks and violent nature. It also gives a peek at the X-Man Colossus (Andre Tricoteux) and Angel Dust (MMA fighter-turned-actress Gina Carano) who also appear in the film.

Warning: The trailer below contains coarse language!

If swear words aren't your thing, you can watch a safe-for-work green-band version instead.

The trailers' release rounds up Deadpool's 12 days of Christmas marketing campaign where the official Deadpool Twitter account posted promotional teasers for the film - from a script page to emojis to a new poster.